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https://jp.mercari.com/item/m80788966669
Funny how T-Shirts I once designed (scanned+design) are now often bootlegged by different companies! Bootlegs of bootlegs if you will. The Mana panties I made as a joke even get sold on Ali Express now. (I have no idea how good the images are though.... Only I have the scans on my computer, they're at least 5000x5000 pixels, sometimes 10000x10000, so how the hell are they copying them so good without any good source?!)
I'm not pissed at all actually! I don't care, I'm even happy good designs of bootleg shirts are available now.
But to see one sold on Mercari, the Japanese second-hand market is astounding! I'm proud.
Don't care about getting any money or recognition for them, I care about MALICE MIZER love. I don't think this has any effect on Közi and Mana and Gackts wallets, not even a cent, so I have a good conscience.
 

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The Mana panties I made as a joke
Ah, I see how it works. Make Mana underwear, wait for a girl to order a set in size "WOW" and then slip your phone number in with the goods ::gaku:: Too bad the Chinese had to come in and ruin it.
 

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1993 Vintage Present omnibus for 22222Y. A good price as thse things go.
https://jp.mercari.com/item/m38832142183
The seller had five of them, which seems a little fishy, but it doesn't look obviously fake - you can see the etchings in the inner ring of the CD.
 

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Yours for a grand: original production materials for a P-MODEL flyer.
https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g1077784090

This belongs in a museum, not in the hands of some dummy from YJ. And that might sound like a joke, but I've seen 70s/80s new wave zines from Britain in for-real museums. I wonder if any Japanese museums have similar collections.
 

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Vintage Present omnibus Pride of Mind version
https://jp.mercari.com/item/m66770390116
All right, you know what? Fine, I'm ordering this CD from this goofball ::meev:: But I'm going to be absolutely putting this under the microscope once I get it.
If nothing else, the cover photo in this auction is higher-quality than anything else out there, so the guy has probably at least been in the same room as a real copy.

"Stripped-Lady cover included as a bonus", give me a break XD
 

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Please tell me if the CD and insert is real! If the person just bought 10 of them, or faked/copied them.
I dunno, but he's got another Pride of mind one for sale now XD The whole thing is a bit fishy, but I'm taking one for the team and we'll see what actually shows up. Who knows, maybe this is some old livehouse staffer cleaning out his basement or something. But I'd be more convinced of that if he had the obscure variants no one cares about.
The CD itself will be easy to verify via the inner-ring etchings and AccurateRip at least.
 

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A couple of early Lareine flyers from back when they were called "Laliene" and Kamijo still went by "Shoki":
https://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/seller/yynl8080
Both ending in about 17 hours. This is purely for collectors if you ask me.
 

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I dunno, but he's got another Pride of mind one for sale now XD
Up to a third copy now:
https://jp.mercari.com/item/m43941042443
https://jp.mercari.com/item/m53012685556
https://jp.mercari.com/item/m66770390116

Did any of you dare to buy the second copy?
He uses the same photo every time but manually adds in the text differently each time ::meev::

EDIT: actually it's not a "he" at all. Let's see just who we're dealing with here:
https://jp.mercari.com/user/profile/669651737

Thank you for reading my profile.
I'm a Mercari novice, a woman in her 30s living in Osaka.

I love Bali and I travel there frequently, but I have so much stuff piling up that I'm starting to sell it.
Since pretty much all the goods from Bali are handmade, the threads may be frayed or dirty. (But this will always be made clear in the photos.)
Being aware of this, please buy my items.

I'm still decluttering my house!
Now and then I have SALES.
If there's an item you're interested in, please comment, and I might be able to give you a discount.
I would like to sell my stuff as quickly as practicable.

Since I work in a restaurant, I may not be able to reply with regular timing. In particular, it's busy during evenings and nights so I may miss comments then. Sorry about that.
I typically can't ship on weekends and holidays.
It often happens that I can't reply to comments. Please understand.

And then just more stuff about shipping and whatnot.
Anyway, simple arithmetic tells us that if she's not lying about her age, she was at most a 10-year-old schoolgirl when these CDs were released in 1993 (perhaps 14 years old if she wrote the bio when she created her account in 2018 and never updated it), and therefore it's highly unlikely she was the original owner. So what's the real story? Who knows.
 
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